. . 38 . 48 48 LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT Mrs. Blackwood ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL Leigh Hunt 43 THE BLIND BOY'S BEEN AT PLAY E. Cook LAMENT FOR JAMES, EARL OF GLEN- HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON MAN'S IGNO- RANCE OF FUTURE EVENTS, AND ON HIS HOPE OF A FUTURE STATE Pope 60 . 67 . . . . . . 83 . 87 . THERE'S A GOOD TIME COMING. Mackay MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN. Southey BRUCE TO HIS TROOPS BEFORE THE VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY FLOWERS IN CHILDHOOD AND AGE Mrs. Sigourney 102 THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON-Low . Mrs. Howitt THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB Byron THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE Wolfe THE DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP Coleridge . . . . . . . ODE TO THE NORTH-EAST WIND... Kingsley 116 INTRODUCTION TO “ENDYMION” Keats FROM “LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME" Macaulay 130 . . . . . . The Poetical Reader. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.—Pope. FATHER of all! in every age, clime adored, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord'! Who all my sense confined ; And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; Left free the human will : What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do ; That, more than heaven pursue. Let me not cast away ; To enjoy is to obey. Thy goodness let me bound, When thousand worlds are round. B |